SETI@home is the largest, most successful Internet distributed computing project to date. Launched in May 1999 to search through signals collected by the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico (the world's largest radio telescope) the project originally received far more terabytes of data every day than its assigned computers could process. So the project directors turned to volunteers, inviting individuals to download the SETI@home software to donate the idle processing time on their computers to the project.
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Thanks for the participation, nice stats hugo, how many machines / what time period is that for ?

I registered (for the second time after a hard-drive crash which resulted in loss of the account details) on Fri Jun 14 17:18:42 2002 UTC. I can't remember exactly when I first signed on btw, that must've been in 99 maybe even.

I run SETI on about 8 machines, mostly Pentium-class machines (1 dual processor), not at all that impressive really. The two fastest machines run at approximately 750Mhz.

i'm trying to switch from seti.nl to the group this security-forums group ....But the mail address i'm using doesn't exist anymore and i don't know the password anymore . So i have a problem here ...I cannot sign in to another group anymore . Only if i start at 0 again ,,,and that is out of the question...

i'm trying to switch from seti.nl to the group this security-forums group ....But the mail address i'm using doesn't exist anymore and i don't know the password anymore . So i have a problem here ...I cannot sign in to another group anymore . Only if i start at 0 again ,,,and that is out of the question...

If it hasn't been too long, the data is probably still there, but I doubt they'll transfer the results to a new account.

I suggest you mail someone at SETI explaining the problem, maybe they can help.

I had to start from 0 after I lost my details, it didn't occur to me then that I could mail them.

is it not possible to install seti remotely and without the annoying dos-box ?
e.a edit the win.ini file and enter a run=c:\seti\seticlient . If i do it like this all users will see a dos box with , as they see it , wierd blabla in it .
I have to authorization to use a network for seti . But it's not possible to install it on every system by going to sit behind the keyboard.

Is it possible to hide the process without aditional software being installed ?